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Strangers Press @Strangers_Press

Literary translation is a cultural exchange. Part of @UEAPublishing based @uniofeastanglia. Follow us on strangerspress.bsky.social

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Mel@nichollsm86
16 Sep 2025
exciting book mail from the UK small press Strangers Press, their new set of chapbooks KANATA, translations from Japanese. Strangers Press catalog is worth checking out, link in reply 📚✨
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Kathryn Hemmann@kathrynthehuman
3 Oct 2025
Udon: Unknown Dog of Nobody, available as a gorgeous chapbook from @strangers_press, follows three sisters and their dog into adulthood. Haneko Takayama writes speculative ecofiction about animals, and it's fantastic to see her work in translation! japaneselit.net/2025/10/03/u…
The front cover of Udon: Unknown Dog of Nobody, a chapbook published by Strangers Press.

ALT The front cover of Udon: Unknown Dog of Nobody, a chapbook published by Strangers Press.
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🌞August slipped away into a moment in time.. but our chapbooks are forever! Why not spend the rest of this Summer reading these coming-of-age-sexual-awakening-identity-questioning short stories from our Lithuanian mini-series KŪNAI Visit our website: strangers.press/kūnai
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🚨CALLING ALL INDIE BOOKSHOPS (and indie bookshop lovers!)🚨 📚We’ve got a new series coming out in August – specifically 5 chapbooks translated from Japanese. Expect strange, beautiful, witty stories, all packaged up in stunning cover designs from Studio Grrr.
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Pre-orders make a big difference to us, so if you think your customers will like them, pop them on order! They look beautiful displayed face-out as a set and are available from Gardners at a 45% discount (if you want more info, please DM us).
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📖Indie bookshop lovers – if you want to get your hands on these, ask your local bookseller to order them in so you can get them for publication day! Tag your favourite indie below to help us spread the word about this amazing new series… INDIE PRESSES <3 INDIE BOOKSHOPS!
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COMING SOON... 👀 🩵Then Why Ask Me to Come? by Wataya Risa, tr. Yuki Tejima🩵 📚This is the FINAL CHAPBOOK in our KANATA series. Visit this link to join our mailing list and be the first to hear more - less than a month to go now until publication! strangers.press/about
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COMING SOON... 👀 📸Kamachi Pictures by Takiguchi Yusho, tr. @jpkirkwood 📚This chapbook is part of KANATA, our upcoming series of chapbooks from Japan! Join our newsletter and be the first to hear more: strangers.press/about
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...Waiting for KANATA? 🩷The perfect way to keep you occupied while you wait is by catching up on our previously published chapbooks! ✨Interested? Visit this link to get a copy: strangers.press/ká-si%C…
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Enjoy!!! ❤️
World Translations Review@Dipesh_Nepal_
13 Jun 2025
New to my Translation Shelf! I'll try to name all the translators, so please bear with me. Series: SVIZRA Languages/Translators: French - Andrea Reece, Rosie Eyre; Italian- Eleanor Chapman, Lucy Rand, Elena Pala (Contd...) Publisher: Strangers Press @Strangers_Press
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COMING SOON...🦀The Three Crabs by Ōba Minako, tr. Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda🦀 📚This chapbook is part of KANATA, our upcoming series of chapbooks from Japan! Follow this link to find out more: strangers.press/kanata
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INTRODUCING... UDON: UNKNOWN DOG OF NOBODY by Takayama Haneko, tr. LK Nithya!🌙 📚This chapbook is part of KANATA, our upcoming series from Japan! 👀More cover reveals to be revealed soon! Follow this link to find out more: strangers.press/product-page…
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COMING SOON... 👀💖 God of the Word by Kou Machida, tr. Daniel Joseph This exciting new chapbook is part of our upcoming series KANATA, featuring incredible writers from Japan! Find out more by visiting our website: strangers.press/kanata
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📖Check out Maya Rubin's review of Ká-sióng, a beautifully-designed series of Taiwanese chapbooks from Strangers Press (edited by @JeremyTiang) in @newbloommag. 🔗Read the review here: newbloommag.net/2025/04/05/k…

Review: Ká-sióng, A Collection of Taiwanese Short Fiction | New Bloom Magazine

Literary translation is having a moment, particularly in Taiwan. You might have seen the recent, glowing New York Times profile of Tilted Axis, a British publisher specializing in translated…

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▫️@tipiekskyu
2 Mar 2025
LOOK AT THIS BABY! almost 8 years of saving & scraping I finally got my paws on Nao-Cola Yamazaki's Friendship for Grownups ( 3 more titles) from @Strangers_Press, and it's only possible because of the miracle worker that is @transitreads. I finally got to put it on my wall T.T
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🎉We’re delighted that Cage (by Qiu Miaojin & translated by Shengchi Hsu) is on @chinabksreview End of Year List!! 👀Take a look at the list here: chinabooksreview.com/2024/12… 🔗 We’re currently reprinting Cage! Pre-order here: strangers.press/product-page…

Best China Books of 2024 | China Books Review

Party luminaries. TV chefs. Poetry. Scandal. Our annual round-up of notable titles on or from China, split across nonfiction and translated literature, nominated by a roster of experts.

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🎉Reminding you about the great review of Mountain Rat (by Lulyang Nomin & translated by @tonyutengwei), in @asymptotejrnl! 🔗Read the review here: asymptotejournal.com/blog/20… 🔗Pick up your copy of Mountain Rat here: strangers.press/product-page…
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👀Great Christmas idea...
Mel@nichollsm86
20 Dec 2024
an early Christmas present for myself, all of the translated chapbooks sets from small UK press @Strangers_Press, all are back in print! The title and country of each translated set: Keshiki - Japan Yeoyu - Korea Verzet - Netherlands Svizra - Switzerland
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So excited to see Mountain Rat written by Lulyang Nomin and translated by @tonyutengwei mentioned in Asymptote's round-up for the best new books in world lit! Read the article here! asymptotejournal.com/blog/20…

What’s New in Translation: December 2024 - Asymptote Blog

Discover new work from Germany, Lebanon, Romania, France, Taiwan, Hungary, Finland, and Tunisia!

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Asymptote Journal@asymptotejrnl
16 Dec 2024
What better way to end 2024 than with a round-up of the best new books in world lit? Spanning Germany, Lebanon, Taiwan, Tunisia and more—our editors bring you tales of adventure, rediscovered poetry, letters, and stories tinged with horror and fantasy: tinyurl.com/3ep64snr
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🎉Congratulations to the wonderful Lin King @linkinglionking, winner of the 2024 US National Book Award for Translated Literature! 📚Her translation of Cloud Labour by Sabrina Huang is part of ká-sióng, our new series of chapbooks. 📸Photo by Annette An-Jen Liu
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